Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 August 1947 — Page 20
The Indianapolis Times
PAGE 20 .. Friday, Aug. 15, 1947
ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ President
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Crime... and Profits
AN OTHER pro ym judge has turned loose another police court character charged with running a lottery, a procedure that has become so routine around here that it seldom attracts much attention any more. ' But th ruling, handed down on Wednesday, does open up a new field for speculation. “Joker” Young, often
running a lottery when his attorneys suggested that nobody had shown he made a profit out of it. ! Indiana state law says that “whoever sells a lottery ticket” or whoever helps anybody else sell one, or whoever lets his property be used for the sale of one, is guilty and shall be fined up to $500. An impressive lot of Indiana court decisions hold that “all schemes for thé division of property by chance are lotteries.” Neither statutes nor decision#® say anything about profits. So far as the laws are concerned the lottery operator may be running at a loss—just like all his customers are—and still be guilty, - \ If the ruling of “Judge” Cook, sitting for just this one case and without responsibility to anybody for what he does on the bench, is a sound one, then it seems.to us a - good deal of our criminal procedure is going #o have to . be revised. A burglar, for ‘example, taken in the act of robbing a house, could argue that cab fare out to the place “amounted to more than he was able to steal, so he hadn't made a profit on the job. A stock swindler might prove that his sales cost and entertainment expenses ran to more than his gross sales, and walk out of court a free man. That's absurd, of course. So, in our opinion, are the groundsicited for dismissal of the case against “Joker” Young. - Here is just another sample of the way our “pro tem.” courts deal with lottery charges, and the kind of reasoning * they follow to free the men the police bring before them. That's why we need the clear-cut city ordinance against lottery tickets over which the city council has been - dallying for the last few months.
India IE Fres—And Weak
E salute India's 400 millions who became self-govern-ing last midnight,” They have the good wishes of the United States and of all democracies in their new liberty. ‘Thanks to the character of the British people and the] + gtatesmanship of the Labor government nearly one-fifth . of the human“race wins political freedom without a war. Whether British rule was a net gain or loss it long since had outlived its usefulness. " subject people makes amends for past wrongs of imperial- , ism, of which there were plenty, This is recognized by most of the Indian nationalists, both Hindus and Moslem, who choose to remain as free dominions within the British commonwealthat least for the present. Though this occasion is a happy one for India in her relations with Britain and America and other democracies, it is marred by the ancient curse of internal communal strife which now afflicts the divided land. This conflict is 80 irreconcilable that India was unable to accept independ. “ence when given without self-partition as two nations Hindustan and Pakistan—a poisonous price to pay even for freedom. Not even that price has bought unity, within the sundered parts. Within-Pakistan—itself divided into two far distant areas—there is strife between Moslem majority and Hindu and other minorities. In Hindustan, the Moslem ~ minority suffers grievously ‘despite the conciliatory pleas of the gentle Gandhi. Multiplying the divisions, some of the larger princely states which were not part of British India insist on separate independence from both Hindustan, and Pakistan. - With the world swirling through post-war yapids and né peaceful waters in sight, this breakup of India into {ragments is a sad omen. Their weakness is an invitation to AgETessors, : / Economic problems are as difficult as political and religious issfes, Which burden and bedevil these people in their-effort to create genuine independence out of the bare forms of freedom. Nowhere is poverty more appalling, nature more unfriendly, human exploitation more ruthless. ‘ Though India is free she is not strong enough to stand alone. More than ever during the transitional period she will need the help and fellowship of friendly nations.
Makes the World Go 'Round, Too
UST, the ‘other day we wrote about, the dangers of ordinary, day-by-day living in these times. We omitted the bathtub hazard, which is an old story, but apparently it has developed a new terror. . When the latest heat wave hit New York an apartment house mother put her young son in the bathtub to coel him . off. It took a police emergency squad more than two hours to get him out. The boy’s finger had become wedged in the protective screen of the drain. The police tried soaping the swelling finger and when this failed they cut the screen out of the drain. Then they had to saw the screen off the boy's = finger. : ! % ' While the police were working on the drain .pipe a
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stayed there for about an hour trying to calm and then amuse him. He succeeded. We mention this because, in addition to the bathtub hazard, not all cities have police emergency squads with such thoughtful patrolmen named : Loves ‘
: Waltzing Matildas
A CONSIGNMENT of ants has been flown. to America
don’t *know about environment
& ty” of ants. Ne don
paper Alliance, NEA Service, arfd Audit Bureau of
arrested but rarely SenVistel was declared not guilty of §
Voluntary liberation of the |
* patrolman aptly named Love climbed into the tub and|
from Australia. They are going to be used in a study of the origin, social structure and “environment adapiahl :
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EN. EISENHOWER ‘was in Seattle, on an army inspection trip, when he first learned of Scripps-Howard Writer ‘Robert Ruark’s exposure 6 deplorable conditions in our army in Italy. . The general's reaction was character-
“If there have been any well-founded charges, we won't have to wait for congress to investigate. Any time there have heen grounds for charges, the army hag
Hoosier Forum
“I do not agree with a word that you say, but | wil
The Mess General Lee Is Ma
not waited for an investigation.” .?
WE like Gen. Eisenhower's attitude, . and we assure him that if the charges had not been well-founded they would not have been reported: by Bob Ruark, and would not have been published in The Times and other Seripps-Howard newspapers. Bob is a responsible report-
sensational story just for the fun of it, ang particularly not one who delights in
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defend to the death your right to say it." —Voltaire.
days and he knew it.
to this outfit, While on the way down there, one|
front of the cdr and fell off. didn’t know it and neither did he, so we arrived at this outfit and stopped at their headquarters. got out and opened the door for
was that it had been gone.
camp? He had me drive him all around
rear view mirror. and I stopped the car and asked if
hands on the steering wheel.
And do you know he made me get out and double time up and down that road 20 times before he would go another foot with me. Well, I thought that my punish~ ment was over, but it wasn't. I got’ more back at camp, but the inspection that he pulled was the case, Now the boys were tired and lots of them hadn't had any sleep for a while. And there they were all out just for him-—so he could have something to say. He would get the company commanders off to oné side and talk to them about this soldier and that one. He did have guts enough to say, “Boys, you did a fine job, you should be proud of yourselves." Well you could just figure that after we left, there was a standing order that he left for G. I's who didn't meet up with his inspection without a doubt would dig up six by six and then cover it back up and walk guard with a full field pack) loaded with rocks and walk guard for four hours and off one hour, Now that's just a few of the things our general did.
as an ex-G.I. I wouldn't mind re-
Press Is Medium Ex-G. I.'s Can Use to Reveal Gen. Lee Abuses
By Ex-S8. Sgt. Robert L. Bowman, City I would like to put my two cents in on this Gen. Lee. To me, this man is a Simon Legree or whatever you would call him. This man, to my notion, is one of the top rank-happy officers of our American army. : I drove him a short spell while serving under his command. This man seemed to enjoy hurting the G. I. of the M. T. O. U. 8. A, because J saw, on one occasion, an inspection tour on which he visited a crack infantry in Italy, at Foggia. These men had been in combat almost 81 Instead of giving them a rest, he sent orders down to tell them he would arrive at their camp around late evening to inspect his “slaves,” and that's the very words he said etore getting into his staff car before going Sows, Ci
| Area Forgotien
of the flagstaffs slipped loose on the! After Tax Time I By Zenobia Fisher. 813 Camp sb.
| People in the | West, Ista
him and the first thing he noticed ‘ime It 1s the forgotten area. And| Besides the dirty streets and lack
boy, did I suffer after I got back 10 of sidewalks, they are denied police
protection.
A prowler stood outside my winthe camp area with my hand in &/down last Saturday night making salute and saluting him through the himself obnoxious. When I threatI held the salute ened to call the police, he ran til I couldn't Stand it any longer through the back yard.
diately
» On the average of once a week
California, Camp and Paca police protection . are taxpayers,
called the police and the he would mind if I would leave two dispatcher said he would send some
were due if I could get out of paying the penalty. Why do we have to. have cars? What has become of the policeman who walked the beat, is that something of the dear dead past? In the alleys between two of these streets, from 7 p. m. on, you can find gangs of men drunk, using vile language, etc. so that it is embarrassing for a woman to pass, nothing is done about it in this neighborhood. When they had one policeman who tried to clean up this district, they took him off.
some one prowls in this neighborhood, nothing has been done about it, but if one has to, wait as-long as I did Saturday night, it would be wasted energy anyway to. call Perhaps one just shouldn't call for on Saturday nights. I really suppose we should give the poor harassed police rest and just let them do nothing but raid gambling places and definitely not. expect protéction in.this forgotten area.
E. Washington St. Needs Repairing :
By Teeny, City It looks like somehow the city should do , something about the
area of St. Clair,|
but after tax
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er, not one who goes around looking for a
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oné€ to investigate. After a half hour I called and the dispatctief said he
not have cars what with having {emergency calls, fights, etc. An {hour later the police still had not come to investigate, nor two hours. If I had told them some one was selling lottery tickets I am sure the whole force would have been there. I wonder if I delayed an hour or
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rough, sections of E. Washington st. !Bither that or make some ‘arrange-
was doing the best he could, he did ment for notifying automobile man-
ufacturers when a car is goipg to be used here, There is no need to regulate speed in this town. The holes in the roads do a pretty good job, and anyone driving over 30 should
{be put under observation, not fined.
I know exactly what is meant by Indianapolis being the automobile
two after the last day my taxes|industry’s proving grounds,
Side Glances=By Galbraith
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the pastime, popular with seme, of finding fault with army and navy brass. Bob
‘wore a little brass in his ‘own right, as a :
navy officer in the late war, and acquitted
himself creditably in several zones of
‘combat. And the Secripps-Howard newspapers, as the general has been gracious enough to acknowledge several times, have a consistent record of trying to build up the army, not tear it down. Because we want our army to be strong, and attractive to young men seeking a career, we thought it our duty to give the widest possible publicity to the malodorous state of -affairs in our way «in Italy. $ There, as Bob Ruark has ably docs: - mented in a series being published in our _ newspaftr this week, commanding Gen. J. C. H. Lee has carried his love of ostentation, lavish living dnd stuffed-shirt mili-
OUR TOWN .
ning fast ball, the distance between homie. plate and the pitcher's box was increased by 10% feet (from 50 to 60% feet, to be éxact). The kid whose fast ball changed the complexion of the baseball dianfond was botn in Mooresville, -but learned the rudiments of the game around here—first as an outfield er of a scrub team composed of boys living in the neighborhood of Sturm ave, and later as a pitcher of the Grand Avenues, a semi“pro club belonging to the City league of Indianapolis. It was during this period, in 1887, that the kid pitched an exhibition game against a team of professional players made up mostly of members of the Indianapolis National league club (the Denny-Glass-cock combination about which I raved last Wednesday). On that occasion, the kid mowed ‘em down with a fast ball as wild as it was blinding. John T. Brush saw that game, rubbed his eyes, and forthwith signed up Amos Rusie, a 17-year-old rookie. (Haw Haw! Like as not yoy thought I had run out of John T. Brush stories.)
They Laughed Too Soon
BECAUSE. OF his inherent Hoosier generosity (too many bases on balls), Rusie was farmed out to the Burlington (Iowa) club. And it was there, in 1889, that he received a wire from Mr. Brush ordering him to catch the first train for New York. After a two-day ride in a day coach, the bewildered kid arrived, more dead than alive, in the big city, Next day he was put in to pitch against the Giants. The Gothamites let out a big guffaw when a 6-foot-tall, 235-pound pitcher entered thegbox. » That afternoon Amos displayed a line of fast balls the like of which had never been seen in the effete East. Sure, he won his game. The following year, in 1890, Rusie was sold to the Giants along with the whole Indianapolis team in as fantastic a, deal as baseball will ever see again. That year the professional ball players organized a labor union (honest) and followed it up with the prerogative of such groups—namely, to strike. It left New York without any players to put into the field, but strangely enough, not Indianapoljs. When the season ended and New York found itself with no players, Mr. Brush sold the whole In-
IN WASHINGTON .
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—Hardly a week passes without a printed report that some high federal office . is to be offered to former Senator Robert M. L& Follette of Wisconsin. It has become something of a joke with the former senator, now established in his own offices in Washington as economic consultant to several large corporations. Explanation for these repeated rumors is not hard to find. La Follette’s ability and integrity were confirmed repeatedly during his years in the senate. Add to this the fact that able men willing to acecpt responsible public ‘ assignments appear to be scarce as hen’s teeth.
have such a shadowy relation to truth that no actual offer is ever made.
Only Government Responsibility . STRANGELY ENOUGH, the only position in government that the former senator has-accepted since year ago has almost entirely escaped attention. La Follette is a member of the committee President Truman named ta survey resources of the United. States in connection with the Marshall plan for reconstruction of While he is only one of 19 members, who are unpaid and whose work has this far received. litfle attention, La Foleltte's role is nevertheless highly significant. His appointment came at the “suggestion” of his long-tigne friend, Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg. The President had made out a list of names to be appointed to the resources committee and, as is so often the case wi Hh public bodies, they had a somewhat stale fhd familiar sound. Vandenberg felt strongly that something more was required, since public acceptance of the .resources report would, conceivably turn on the degree of faith inspired by the committee. Among
WORLD AFFAIRS
VIENNA, Aug. 15.—Even moré than Gefmany, Austria has become a vital flash point in‘the conflict between east and west. As the peace in Europe may hinge on the outcome; it's important thet Ameri-
cans be told about ft. The Dnited States is contending for & tree, demo~ cratic A within the meaning of the Atlantic * the Moscow declaration and ‘other allied
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Most of the Ls Follette rumors are baseless or
. By William Philip Simms
U.S. Has. Chance to Salvage Austria
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We ave sure the’ kind of drm Ge. Lee
Gen. Eisenhower wants anywhere. : It is not the kind of army we have in Germany or Austria. Nor in Japan or Korea. In those places, whePe, incidentally, difficulties and dangers are greater, there's no such self-glorification and selfgratification of the commanding generals..
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the dignity, rights and comforts of fn listed men. And, Sonsequantly, uel higher morale,
HE army's enfistment program should
get a great boost when Gen. Eisen. hower takes a look at, and cleans up, Gen. Lee's unholy mess in Italy.
. By Anton Scherrer
Hoosier's Fast Ball Changed Dison:
BECAUSE OF an Indianapolis boy ‘and his light# dianapolis outfit to New Yofk—at a pretty penny,
you bet. Whether Mr, Brush’'s behavior reflected his love for the Giants (he was ‘born in Clintonville, N. Y) or whether it was the result of a dislike for bot itons remains a debatable question. Less detable is the historic fact that, Ron, Lots oc Brotherhood of. Baseball Players, Indianapolis lost not only its hig league team of seasoned players, but also the promising rookie, Amos Rusie. In his first season as a Giant, Rusie set an all time record for the National league by striking out 345 ‘batters. ‘That same season (1890) he issued 276 bases. on balls which was also a record. In the
- course of the first four years, he won 132 games out
of the 224 that he pitched. By this time people were wondering. whether anything ynder the sun could stop the, Indianapolis boy. Finally, in 1803, somebody thought up a slick scheme that looked as if it might work. The pitcher's box was moved 10% feet farther away from the batter. The scheme con~ celved ' with the help of the devil didn't penafile -Rusie a bit. By this time, he had perfected an as- ” sortment of curves which needed just that additional distance to give his ball the necessary room in which to break.
Known as 'Hoosier Cyclone’ . IN 1895, RUSIE was going like a house on fire. Lillian Russell begged to be introduced to him; the Hoffman House bar concocted‘ a dish yclept the Rusie cocktail; Weber & Fields put on a special Rusie skit, and little boys all over the country saved their pennie? to have enough (25) to buy "a brochure labeled “Secrets of Amos Rusie, the World's Greatest Pitcher: How He Obtains His Incredible Speed on the Ball.” It was the year, too, he was christened ‘the “Hoosier Cyclone.” Two years later, in 1897 when he was 27 years old,
"Rusie was billed to pitch against Chicago. Big
Lange, a fast man on the bases, was the runner on first base. Rusie watched him out of the corner of his eye, and with his speedy ball caught him off the bag. With the delivery of that ball,’something had | snapped in Rusie’s arm. The Giants kept ‘him | through the seasons of '¢8 and '99 praying for a miracle, but Rusie was never the same after that. Subsequently, he was sold to Cincinnati. Perhaps it would be more in the pattern of a&°®
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gentimentalist like myself to say that Rusie was |
bought by Cincinnati, for by this time the Reds be« longed to-——guess who? ‘Sure, John; T. Brush. -.
By Marquis Childs La Follette to Draft Resources Report
Vandenberg's “suggestions”: werd La Follette and eldef statesman Owen D. Young. Both accepted.
It is easy to say American can not afford not |
to help Europe out of the collapse produced by the war. If Europe ean not buy our goods and exports have already begun to turn down then we shall feel effects here in declining payrolls and curtailed profits, But with a continuing high devel of demand in this country for most of the products of our farms and factories, this seems remote and theoretical. Scarcities and highs prices particularly for a place to live breed an’ attitude summed up by “let’s care of our own people before we help out any foreigners.” : Those who have thought seriously about the problem of public acceptance for the Marshall program are well aware of. such attitudes. It is one reason why they were sage to have La Follette to take a part. Pr ma present heid of the La Follstle cian should now -be convinced that America can and must spend more of her relources to stablise the world then other mid-westerners with the isolationist slant would be impressed. | Key to World ‘Aid Program LA FOLLETTE HAS BEEN MADE HEAD of a subcommittee that will draft the report. . He will draw on the raw material of facts being compiled by
“Secretary of Interior Julius A, Krug and his subcom-
mittee, and the economic-financial facts to be supplied by Edwin G, Nourse, chairman of the President's council of economic advisers. There is good reason to‘believe that La Follette’s world outlook has undergone a change, Involvement in two world wars has inextricably tied the United States’ to Europe. Moreover, La Follette is actually aware of Soviet Russia's world ambitions. The re-
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